COORDINATED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does coordinated mean? 

• COORDINATED (adjective)
  The adjective COORDINATED has 3 senses:

1. operating as a unit

2. being dexterous in the use of more than one set of muscle movements

3. intentionally matched

  Familiarity information: COORDINATED used as an adjective is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COORDINATED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Operating as a unit

Synonyms:

co-ordinated; coordinated; interconnected; unified

Context example:

a coordinated program

Similar:

integrated (formed into a whole or introduced into another entity)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Being dexterous in the use of more than one set of muscle movements

Synonyms:

co-ordinated; coordinated

Context example:

she was usually good with her hands and well coordinated

Similar:

adroit (quick or skillful or adept in action or thought)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Intentionally matched

Synonyms:

co-ordinated; coordinated; matching

Context example:

curtains and walls were color coordinated

Similar:

matched (going well together; possessing harmonizing qualities)

 Context examples 

T cell responses to IL-2 must be coordinated in part in the complex protein-protein interactions with the IL-2 receptor beta chain.

(IL2RB Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

Project started in 1993 under Public Law 103-43 and is funded and coordinated by the National Cancer Institute and the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences.

(Long Island Breast Cancer Study, NCI Thesaurus)

Terminal differentiation of cells is often accompanied by repression of cellular proliferation, suggesting that there is a mechanism by which these cellular functions are coordinated.

(Macrophage Differentiation Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

Cell Surface Extension is a coordinated cellular process involving the cell membrane, cytoskeleton, subcortical elements, and other subcellular structures that generates a localized outgrowth of a cell.

(Cell Surface Extension, NCI Thesaurus)

A coordinated international effort of researchers to map and sequence the human genome.

(Human Genome Project, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

A series of coordinated, rhythmic muscle contractions that occur throughout the length of the gastrointestinal tract and in the ureters.

(Peristalsis, NCI Thesaurus)

Cell growth regulation controls the rate, or the mechanism, of complex coordinated cellular phenomena that promote cell metabolism, cell growth, and cell division.

(Cell Growth Regulation, NCI Thesaurus)

Furthermore cell-cell adhesions are important for brain morphology and highly coordinated brain functions such as memory and learning.

(Cell Adhesion Molecule Signaling Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/KEGG)

A coordinated set of actions and observations designed to generate data, with the ultimate goal of discovery or hypothesis testing.

(Experiment, NCI Thesaurus)

Through physical or functional dissociation, Enzyme Uncoupling involves alteration (typically disruption) of activity of a physically or functionally coordinated biological complex that possesses catalytic activity.

(Enzyme Uncoupling, NCI Thesaurus)